Comment on Anon watches The Terminator
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, he did come from the future after all. It wouldn’t be hard for Skynet to dig through criminal records, court cases, sales records, bank info, etc… and pinpoint where to get an optimal shopping experience for this mission.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Part of the plot was that Skynet didn’t have great records. The terminator had to use a phone book and go down the line killing Sarah Conners because it didn’t know which one was the target
tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
I find it weird that there probably was an early skynet that did know all these addresses off a bat but had no time machine, and then a later skynet that lost that info but did have that time machine.
I guess the rebels really did make a marked difference to the data banks of skynet to cripple it, even as its capabilities were extended
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Consider that a fire in one building in 1973 destroyed millions of military records of which there were no copies, ruining bookkeeping for military personnel who had been discharged up to the 1960s.
The world was much less digitized even in the 1980s. A lot of records were still kept on paper or microfiche.
In the world of The Terminator Skynet’s first move was to nuke population centers. That means destroying untold numbers of records. Sure some military and high level government records would be on ARPANET but not nearly what we are used to today would be digital. Anything physically filed was basically gone though. Thats a lot of blank spaces.